A German spy chief has warned “the Kremlin” against taking the “political decision” to interfere in Germany’s election by using hacked information.
The warning came amid evidence that Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, which reports directly to Russian president Vladimir Putin, stole information from the German parliament in 2015.
It also tried to steal material from Germany’s main political parties, the CDU and the SPD, in the run-up to the German vote in September.
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.